diff --git a/packages/img/src/img.spec.tsx b/packages/img/src/img.spec.tsx
index 2c0fc47dc6..586066897c 100644
--- a/packages/img/src/img.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/img/src/img.spec.tsx
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ describe('<Img> component', () => {
       <Img alt="Cat" height="300" src="cat.jpg" width="300" />,
     );
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="cat.jpg"/><!--$--><img alt="Cat" height="300" src="cat.jpg" style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none" width="300"/><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><img alt="Cat" fetchPriority="low" height="300" src="cat.jpg" style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none" width="300"/><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/img/src/img.tsx b/packages/img/src/img.tsx
index 1bc08a7afe..b2b632fc44 100644
--- a/packages/img/src/img.tsx
+++ b/packages/img/src/img.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ export const Img = React.forwardRef<HTMLImageElement, ImgProps>(
     <img
       {...props}
       alt={alt}
+      // Setting fetchPriority to "low" prevents React 19's SSR from
+      // auto-injecting <link rel="preload"> tags for every image, which are
+      // unnecessary noise in email HTML. Email clients ignore this attribute.
+      fetchPriority="low"
       height={height}
       ref={ref}
       src={src}
diff --git a/packages/preview-server/src/utils/get-email-component.spec.ts b/packages/preview-server/src/utils/get-email-component.spec.ts
index d1925f9fa1..be299e5805 100644
--- a/packages/preview-server/src/utils/get-email-component.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/preview-server/src/utils/get-email-component.spec.ts
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ describe('getEmailComponent()', () => {
         "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
         <html dir="ltr" lang="en">
           <head>
-            <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-logo.png" />
-            <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-user.png" />
-            <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-arrow.png" />
-            <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-team.png" />
             <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
             <meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting" />
             <!--$-->
@@ -81,6 +77,7 @@ describe('getEmailComponent()', () => {
                                   <td>
                                     <img
                                       alt="Vercel Logo"
+                                      fetchpriority="low"
                                       height="37"
                                       src="/static/vercel-logo.png"
                                       style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0"
@@ -132,6 +129,7 @@ describe('getEmailComponent()', () => {
                                             data-id="__react-email-column">
                                             <img
                                               alt="alanturing&#x27;s profile picture"
+                                              fetchpriority="low"
                                               height="64"
                                               src="/static/vercel-user.png"
                                               style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;border-radius:9999px"
@@ -142,6 +140,7 @@ describe('getEmailComponent()', () => {
                                             data-id="__react-email-column">
                                             <img
                                               alt="Arrow indicating invitation"
+                                              fetchpriority="low"
                                               height="9"
                                               src="/static/vercel-arrow.png"
                                               style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none"
@@ -152,6 +151,7 @@ describe('getEmailComponent()', () => {
                                             data-id="__react-email-column">
                                             <img
                                               alt="Enigma team logo"
+                                              fetchpriority="low"
                                               height="64"
                                               src="/static/vercel-team.png"
                                               style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;border-radius:9999px"
diff --git a/packages/react-email/src/commands/testing/export.spec.ts b/packages/react-email/src/commands/testing/export.spec.ts
index cd467dcd54..add4488f96 100644
--- a/packages/react-email/src/commands/testing/export.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/react-email/src/commands/testing/export.spec.ts
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ test('email export', { retry: 3 }, async () => {
     "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
     <html dir="ltr" lang="en">
       <head>
-        <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-logo.png" />
-        <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/static/vercel-arrow.png" />
         <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
         <meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting" />
         <!--$-->
@@ -71,6 +69,7 @@ test('email export', { retry: 3 }, async () => {
                               <td>
                                 <img
                                   alt="Vercel Logo"
+                                  fetchpriority="low"
                                   height="37"
                                   src="/static/vercel-logo.png"
                                   style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0"
@@ -121,6 +120,7 @@ test('email export', { retry: 3 }, async () => {
                                         data-id="__react-email-column">
                                         <img
                                           alt="undefined&#x27;s profile picture"
+                                          fetchpriority="low"
                                           height="64"
                                           style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;border-radius:9999px"
                                           width="64" />
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ test('email export', { retry: 3 }, async () => {
                                         data-id="__react-email-column">
                                         <img
                                           alt="Arrow indicating invitation"
+                                          fetchpriority="low"
                                           height="9"
                                           src="/static/vercel-arrow.png"
                                           style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none"
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ test('email export', { retry: 3 }, async () => {
                                         data-id="__react-email-column">
                                         <img
                                           alt="undefined team logo"
+                                          fetchpriority="low"
                                           height="64"
                                           style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none;border-radius:9999px"
                                           width="64" />
diff --git a/packages/render/src/browser/render-web.spec.tsx b/packages/render/src/browser/render-web.spec.tsx
index 88e38d2ffd..362d304286 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/browser/render-web.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/render/src/browser/render-web.spec.tsx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe('render on the browser environment', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ describe('render on the browser environment', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/render/src/edge/render.spec.tsx b/packages/render/src/edge/render.spec.tsx
index 7ecc243ff7..62e0947163 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/edge/render.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/render/src/edge/render.spec.tsx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe('render on the edge', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ describe('render on the edge', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/render/src/node/render-edge.spec.tsx b/packages/render/src/node/render-edge.spec.tsx
index 652ef43cab..9751ab64d6 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/node/render-edge.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/render/src/node/render-edge.spec.tsx
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ describe('render on the edge', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
 
     vi.resetAllMocks();
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ describe('render on the edge', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ describe('render on the edge', () => {
       const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
       expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-        `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+        `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
       );
     });
   });
diff --git a/packages/render/src/node/render-node.spec.tsx b/packages/render/src/node/render-node.spec.tsx
index ee5893a603..7bd120a4aa 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/node/render-node.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/render/src/node/render-node.spec.tsx
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ describe('render on node environments', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
 
     vi.resetAllMocks();
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ describe('render on node environments', () => {
     const actualOutput = await render(<Template firstName="Jim" />);
 
     expect(actualOutput).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><link rel="preload" as="image" href="img/test.png"/><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><!--$--><h1>Welcome, <!-- -->Jim<!-- -->!</h1><img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png"/><p>Thanks for trying our product. We&#x27;re thrilled to have you on board!</p><!--/$-->"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/render/src/shared/utils/pretty.spec.ts b/packages/render/src/shared/utils/pretty.spec.ts
index a9087e8e38..6dc08f3e49 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/shared/utils/pretty.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/render/src/shared/utils/pretty.spec.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ describe('pretty', () => {
                         <td>
                           <img
                             alt="Stripe"
+                            fetchpriority="low"
                             height="21"
                             src="/static/stripe-logo.png"
                             style="display:block;outline:none;border:none;text-decoration:none"
diff --git a/packages/render/src/shared/utils/testing/template.tsx b/packages/render/src/shared/utils/testing/template.tsx
index 50cb9c30f1..7ea9a8fd44 100644
--- a/packages/render/src/shared/utils/testing/template.tsx
+++ b/packages/render/src/shared/utils/testing/template.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ interface TemplateProps {
 export const Template: React.FC<Readonly<TemplateProps>> = ({ firstName }) => (
   <>
     <h1>Welcome, {firstName}!</h1>
-    <img alt="test" src="img/test.png" />
+    <img alt="test" fetchPriority="low" src="img/test.png" />
     <p>Thanks for trying our product. We're thrilled to have you on board!</p>
   </>
 );
